Five Questions to Ask to Be a More Inclusive Leader

Overview

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Inclusive leadership isn't a soft skill — it's the competitive edge that determines whether your team reaches its full potential or leaves critical perspectives on the table. In this course, taught by DEI strategist and Liberation Labs Co-Founder Viva Asmelash, you'll build the cultural competence and practical tools to lead every member of your team with intention and equity. You'll apply a framework for deepening self-awareness around identity and power, build intentional relationships across your team, foster psychological safety for all, invest equally in everyone's growth, and hold yourself and others accountable to meaningful change. By the end of this course, you'll have a concrete, actionable set of inclusive leadership practices you can put to work immediately to elevate every person on your team.

Syllabus

Building Cultural Competence as an Inclusive Leader

Your leadership lens shapes every interaction you have with your team, and most of it goes unnamed. In this module, you'll apply the Cultural Competence Model to identify and shift your own biases and leadership behaviors, and gain practical strategies to ensure every team member can prepare, contribute, and be heard.

Five Key Questions for Inclusive Leadership

You already know how to lead, and this module gives you five questions that make your leadership more equitable, intentional, and accountable every single day. In this module, you'll apply a concrete framework for building identity-aware relationships, creating psychological safety for every team member, investing equally in everyone's growth, and holding yourself to the standards inclusive leadership requires.

Conclusion

Growing as a leader requires consistent effort. Now that you've completed this course, you're ready to elevate all members of your team, leading to collective success, growth, and innovation.